Buru Regency is a

regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

of Maluku province,

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. When it was first created on 4 October 1999, the regency encompassed the entire island (plus outlying islands, of which Amalau is the largest); but on 24 June 2008 the southern 40% of the island was split off to form a separate Buru Selatan (''South Buru'') Regency. The residual Buru Regency comprises the northern 60% of the island of

Buru Buru (formerly spelled Boeroe, Boro, or Bouru) is the third largest island within the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It lies between the Banda Sea to the south and Seram Sea to the north, west of Ambon and Seram islands. The island belongs to Ma ...

and covers an area of 7,595.58 km². The population at the 2010 census was 108,445 and at the 2020 census this had increased to 135,238. The principal town lies at

Namlea Namlea is a town and ''kecamatan'' on the northeastern coast of the Indonesian island of Buru. It is the capital of the Buru Regency. Climate Namlea has a tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tr ...

Administrative Districts

At the time of the 2010 census the Buru Regency was divided into five

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(''kecamatan''), but subsequently this has been increased to ten districts by the splitting of the existing districts. The ten districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the location of the district headquarters, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes. Notes: (a) including the offshore islands of Pulau Nirwana Besar and Pulau Nirwana Kecil. (b) including the offshore island of Pulau Batukapal. (c) the 2010 populations of these new districts are included in the figures for the districts from which they were split away.

References

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